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Things around the web #2

2013-11-08 by _tasos Leave a Comment

This post gathers a few things I ran into the last few weeks and thought it would be fun to share it with you. … [Continue reading]

Use Dropbox with your ASP.NET application

2013-11-07 by _tasos

In this article we will see how we can use Dropbox in a ASP.NET application. We will implement the basic functions of a file manager. Since there is no official SDK for .NET, we will use the HigLabo library for our interaction with the Dropbox API. … [Continue reading]

‘‘ is ambiguous in the namespace

2013-04-22 by _tasos Leave a Comment

There are times where this error appears in our web application, without a specific reason. '<name>' is ambiguous in the namespace '<namespace>' This error has the following error code Error ID: BC30560. … [Continue reading]

Things around the web #1

2013-02-03 by _tasos Leave a Comment

This post gathers a few things I ran into the last few weeks and thought it would be fun to share it with you. … [Continue reading]

Avoiding the ‘A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected’

2013-01-28 by _tasos 3 Comments

This is a common error that ASP.NET developers have run into many times. We will see in this article a few ways on how to avoid it, both in Web Forms and MVC. … [Continue reading]

Getting video information from YouTube and Vimeo

2013-01-21 by _tasos 15 Comments

YouTube and Vimeo provide a data API that you can use to get information for their videos. YouTube requires the use of an API key and you can get one for free. At the bottom of the article you will see the required steps to obtain a YouTube API key. … [Continue reading]

Set mime types for web fonts in IIS

2013-01-13 by _tasos 17 Comments

A typical @font-face declaration includes a .eot file, a .svg file, a .ttf file and a .woff file. If your IIS does not serve any of the previous file types, you need to set the appropriate mime type. … [Continue reading]

Centering images horizontally and vertically

2012-12-22 by _tasos Leave a Comment

In this article we will see how we can center an image to its parent element, regardless of its dimensions, with a small JavaScript plugin. The plugin re-sizes the image to fit to its parent element and sets margin-top or margin-left so that the … [Continue reading]